Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2

Las personas con EPOC se encuentran entre las más afectadas por COVID-19 y GOLD está trabajando con la OMS para tratar de minimizar el impacto de la infección.

Para más información, visita: https://goldcopd.org/gold-covid-19-guidance/

OMS - Coronavirus (COVID-19)

En este sitio web se puede encontrar información y orientaciones de la OMS acerca del actual brote de enfermedad por coronavirus (COVID-19). En esta página figura información actualizada diariamente.

Para más información, visita: https://www.who.int/es

IPCRG

La página de la International Primary Care Respiratory Group (IPCRG)

https://www.theipcrg.org/display/HOME/Our+Vision%3A+Breathing+and+feeling+well+through+universal+access+to+right+care pone a nuestra disposición información variada acerca del COVID-19.

COVID-19 open source sources of information

15 Apr 2020

MAPS

https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html also using Johns Hopkins data https://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/ 

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ using the same data https://www.covidvisualizer.com/

https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus

European excess mortality: https://www.euromomo.eu/index.html

GENERAL GUIDANCE FOR PRIMARY CARE

Covid-19: a remote assessment in primary care Greenhalgh BMJ including algorithm https://www.bmj.com/content/368/bmj.m1182 (note subsequently Roth test confirmed as not useful)

Australia: Living guidelines - taking the evidence for primary care and turning into living guidelines and flowcharts by taskforce based at Cochrane Australia at Monash University: https://covid19evidence.net.au/

Ireland: https://www.hpsc.ie/a-z/respiratory/coronavirus/novelcoronavirus/guidance/primarycareguidance/

UK: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/wn-cov-guidance-for-primary-care/wn-cov-interim-guidance-for-primary-care

NHS Scotland: http://bit.ly/2vpLIm9

Nursing Times: Novel coronavirus: key questions and answers on the outbreak | Nursing Times

Review and guidance on masks as part of protection for healthcare workers and the public written for India and other populous South Asian countries by Sundeep Salvi (undergoing peer review) http://apiindia.org/wp-content/uploads/pdf/corona-virus/review-article-on-mask.pdf

Italy: http://www.salute.gov.it/portale/nuovocoronavirus/dettaglioContenutiNuovoCoronavirus.jsp?lingua=italiano&id=5351&area=nuovoCoronavirus&menu=vuoto

Portugal: https://covid19.min-saude.pt/

Spain: https://www.mscbs.gob.es/profesionales/saludPublica/ccayes/alertasActual/nCov-China/home.htm

Spain for pharmacists: https://www.portalfarma.com/Profesionales/campanaspf/Asesoramiento-salud-publica/infeccion-coronavirus-2019-nCoV/Paginas/default.aspx

Pulmonary rehabilitation resource pack from British Thoracic Society when face-to-face is not possible: https://www.brit-thoracic.org.uk/about-us/covid-19-information-for-the-r...

DISCHARGE TO THE COMMUNITY FROM HOSPITAL

European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control: https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/sites/default/files/documents/covid-19-guidance-discharge-and-ending-isolation-first%20update.pdf

Public Health England: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-guidance-for-stepdown-of-infection-control-precautions-within-hospitals-and-discharging-covid-19-patients-from-hospital-to-home-settings/guidance-for-stepdown-of-infection-control-precautions-and-discharging-covid-19-patients

RURAL AND REMOTE

Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine: https://www.acrrm.org.au/support/clinicians/community-support/coronavirus-support

US Rural Health Information Hub https://www.ruralhealthinfo.org/topics/covid-19 and NRHA https://www.ruralhealthweb.org/programs/resources/covid-19-resources

Manitoba, Canada: https://sharedhealthmb.ca/covid19/providers/

Rural Doctors of Southern Africa (downloadable PDF)

PEOPLE IN INFORMAL SETTLEMENTS

Practical advice from ARISE (LSTM, UK) http://bit.ly/ARISE-HUB-COVID-19

EMERGING TREATMENT QUESTIONS FOR PRIMARY CARE INCLUDING ABOUT PEOPLE WITH COPD AND/OR ASTHMA

Cochrane rapid reviews: questionbank, process, register, rapid reviews underway or completed: https://www.cochrane.org/cochranes-work-rapid-reviews-response-covid-19

Centre for Evidence Based Medicine (CEBM) at Oxford University https://www.cebm.net/oxford-covid-19/ eg using inhaled steroids in asthma

GINA: https://ginasthma.org/recommendations-for-inhaled-asthma-controller-medi... and https://ginasthma.org/covid-19-gina-answers-to-frequently-asked-question...

Australian Asthma Handbook (chaired by our Chair of Education, Amanda Barnard): https://www.asthmahandbook.org.au/clinical-issues/covid-19

Malaysian guidelines on inhaled therapy during COVID-19 pandemic - relevant for middle income countries where nebulisation is common and so now needs to be avoided (download PDF version 5 April 2020)

China: Special presentation to WHO-GARD 19 March 2020 from Dr. Bin Cao – Chinese Guideline of Diagnosis and treatment of COVID-19 https://gard-breathefreely.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/COVID-19-China-guideline_BCao.pdf

Portuguese: https://evidentiamedica.com/covid19-evidentia/

Canada - Alberta College of Family Physicians Tools for Practice Rapid Reviews eg hydroxychloroquine https://gomainpro.ca/tools-for-practice/

Emerging data on symptoms from Kings College, London and Zoe using new symptom tracker app which has about 2m UK citizens and now launched in US (1 April 2020) https://covid.joinzoe.com/

EDUCATION FOR PRIMARY CARE

Royal College of GPs, UK https://elearning.rcgp.org.uk/course/view.php?id=373 including palliative care

MODELS AND POPULATION LEVEL DATA

Modelling from Imperial College, London https://www.imperial.ac.uk/about/covid-19/

Mortality rates by country by infection rate by age https://www.bmj.com/content/368/bmj.m1052/rr-0

Editorial BMJ 2020-03-26 from our Chair of Research and colleagues: Covid-19: risk factors for severe disease and death: http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/bmj.m1198?ijkey=EaaXnzkhvi8nfTj&keytype=ref

WHO STATEMENTS

https://www.who.int/health-topics/coronavirus

INFORMATION FOR THE PUBLIC

WHO Q&A for the public https://www.who.int/news-room/q-a-detail/q-a-coronaviruses

Patient charity: Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America https://community.aafa.org/blog/coronavirus-2019-ncov-flu-what-people-with-asthma-need-to-know (useful chart comparing symptoms of COVID-19, colds, influenza and allergies)

Patient charity: Asthma UK https://www.asthma.org.uk/advice/triggers/coronavirus-covid-19/

Q&As from European Lung Foundation in multiple languages https://www.europeanlung.org/en/QA-covid-19

INFORMATION FOR RESEARCHERS

Global Health Respiratory Network (GHRN) https://www.ipcrg.org/projects/research/global-health-respiratory-network/global-health-respiratory-network-ghrn/ghrn

REPOSITORIES OF PEER-REVIEWED PAPERS

LitCovid https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/research/coronavirus/

BMJ https://www.bmj.com/coronavirus